Yeah, I could never reconcile the concept of a "balanced" diet and the idea that a certain, easy to produce, category of food should be the majority of calories

Yeah, I could never reconcile the concept of a "balanced" diet and the idea that a certain, easy to produce, category of food should be the majority of calories. It was clearly a nudge on the exploding post-war populations to eat foods that are good for business and not necessarily good for health. An acre of corn or wheat makes whole lot more than that same acre being used for leafy greens or grass-fed proteins and fats (i.e. livestock)